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Theater of the Stars: A Novel of Physics and Memory

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Publisher Comments:

Lucienne Kundera, an astrophysicist, has uncovered a black hole as mysterious as the secrets in her life. Lucienne's mother, Hélène, is a scientist as well, who was captured during World War II. She eventually escaped and disappeared, reappearing years later in New Mexico with Lucienne. Hélène claims to have no recollection of these past events, but when she and Lucienne visit Paris, the city of Hélène's youth, Hélène is overcome by memories and secrets, and attempts suicide. Lucienne becomes dangerously obsessed with uncovering her mother's past, while at the same time attempting to solve a celestial mystery so dark and dense that its nature cannot be revealed.

Theater of the Stars is a finely crafted novel sure to establish Kelby as a storyteller of unique sensitivity and wisdom.

Review:

"Both mysterious and a novel about secrets — secret actions and the secret emotions that provoke them." Washington Post Book World

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"Packed with revolving themes...Kelby's writing has a dreamy quality." San Francisco Chronicle

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"Unique and moving...Kelby...has a real gift for description?electrically vivid." St Petersburg Times

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"Spellbinding...ingenious...As psychologically loaded as it is suspenseful...penetrating...searing." Booklist

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From the critically acclaimed author of In the Company of Angels, comes a novel of physics, memory, and the mystery of a mother's forgotten past
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About the Author

N. M. Kelby is the winner of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature, the Heekin Group Foundation's James Fellowship for the Novel, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a Jerome Travel Study Grant, and a Jewish Arts Endowment Fellowship. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story Extra and the Mississippi Review. She divides her time between Sarasota, Florida, and Minnetonka, Minnesota.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780786868582
Subtitle:
A Novel of Physics and Memory
Publisher:
Hyperion
Author:
Kelby, N. M.
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Paris
Subject:
New mexico
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Subject:
Amnesia
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Jewish women
Subject:
Suicidal behavior
Subject:
Children of Holocaust survivors
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Jewish families
Subject:
Astrophysicists
Subject:
Jewish fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series Volume:
107-248
Publication Date:
20030716
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.625 in 14.56 oz
Age Level:
from 18
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Product details 288 pages Theia - English 9780786868582 Reviews:
"Review" by , "Both mysterious and a novel about secrets — secret actions and the secret emotions that provoke them."
"Review" by , "Packed with revolving themes...Kelby's writing has a dreamy quality."
"Review" by , "Unique and moving...Kelby...has a real gift for description?electrically vivid."
"Review" by , "Spellbinding...ingenious...As psychologically loaded as it is suspenseful...penetrating...searing."
"Synopsis" by , From the critically acclaimed author of In the Company of Angels, comes a novel of physics, memory, and the mystery of a mother's forgotten past
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